I noticed today that my recent entry lauding Chuck E. Cheese's for an enjoyable kid's birthday party has been getting more traffic that expected, so I checked Google and indeed, it has mysteriously garnered the number five spot when searching for "Chuck E Cheese"! Weird! It's the only place where Chuck E. Cheese's is mentione...
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Zeno's paradox: motion is impossible, because to go from one place to another, you have to first go half way. Then to go the rest of the way, you have to first go half way, and so on, so you never quite get there. In fact, you can never get started, because before you can...
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The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "prehistoric comedy". I see a caveman. I see laughing crowds. I see Chicago. I see spandex jackets. The future becomes clear.

Rob Becker's play Defending the Caveman, a comedy about how men and women struggle to relate, is playing in Chicago. This much you can learn...
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Since posting yesterday about the subscribe button hell that's overrunning some weblogs, I've been thinking a little more about the problems universal feed subscription method would need to address and how it might work. A quick refresher: we need a way to enable users of any feed reader to subscribe to a feed (or at...
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Does your blog look like this?

Updated list of subscribe buttons

I've updated my list of subscribe buttons to include every feed reader known to man, and one known only to monkeys and algae. Click the button to the right for your reader to subscribe to this feed. 

If things keep going the way the...
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If "Web+1" is to overtake "Web 2.0", it needs a snappy theme song. Here it is, based on Love Plus One by Haircut 100:

Web Plus One

by Haircut 10.0

I, I clicked off of the site

Without bookmarking, "goodbye!"

Where does it go from here?

Is it blogging and feeds I hear?

R R...
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After posting yesterday, I realized that I hadn't expressed on opinion on whether "Web 2.0" is a good name despite it's inaccuracy. Hmm. Yeah, sure, whatever. "++Web" would be more universally accurate since the result could be a different number for everyone's local value of "Web", but that wouldn't be as widely understood. "Web++" looks...
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Yesterday, Tim Bray posted an entry about his dislike for the term "Web 2.0", arguing that the growing impact of blogging and syndication on the way the web works is "3.0", not "2.0" (and hints that it may even be "4.0"). Tim O'Reilly, whose organization has a conference named the "Web 2.0 Conference" posted today...
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While writing recently about short-lived feeds for breaking news and aggregator support for deleted feeds, it occurred to me that publishers may not want to delete their short-lived feeds once they've finished posting to them. What do you do when you're not going to update a feed anymore, but you don't want to delete it?...
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Back in June, Blogger busted itself slightly by starting to insert divs at the top and bottom of each entry body to clear floats. I'm guessing they did it to be sure that entries with floated images in them don't end up stacked next to each other. The problem is that I (and some others,...
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